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Farmers are being urged to ensure their businesses can survive without the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), which is due to be phased out in England.
Some 36% of farm income relies on the BPS payment, according to a
Farmers Weekly survey.
But one in three farmers are yet to start preparing for its withdrawal – even though the first reductions are less than six months away.
More than 700 farmers responded to the survey, which was conducted for Transition – a new
Farmers Weekly initiative to help secure a more financially and environmentally sustainable future for farm businesses.
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Payments under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP), which commenced in December, continue, with compliance verification ongoing for almost 2,000 participants, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed.
In a brief statement on the matter to
AgriLand, a spokesperson for the department said:
“Payments under the 2020 Programme year for both BDGP I and BDGP II commenced in December 2020 and as of this week a total of 22,086 active participants have received payments of €39.85 million.
The issue with partnership cases has been resolved with 550 partnership cases paid in recent weeks.
“Payments to the remaining 1,914 participants will continue to be made under the programme over the coming weeks as participating farmer’s compliance with scheme requirements are verified.”
$18 billion, $16 billion checks to farmers. largely big agribusiness concerns are getting the biggest chunk of that to make up for the trade war he himself started and there s money for that somehow. where did that money come from? this is incredibly frustrating. first of all, we have more accountability in the nutrition program in snap than they are now using for these farm payments. we put in the farm bill payment limits that you can we want to support farmers. i support farmers strongly in michigan. it s our second largest industry. but we put parameters around accountability, payment limits, of which they re completely blowing through. they re not even following the farm bill accountability. really? on these payments. right. and i just put out a report with the senate democrats on the agriculture and nutrition committee showing the majority of payments aren t even going to the folks that are hurt the most. the majority of the payments are going to the south. they re going
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